Converting A Seawater Tank To A Freshwater Aquarium

Do you have a seawater tank that you want to turn into a good-looking freshwater aquarium? You can do that. Let's talk how you could go about it.

Scrub off the inside of the tank, first. Use water and vinegar. Use some scrubber which you could get rid off just after this operation. Your old sand would probably be easier and cheaper just to throw away and replace with new sand. Technically, it is possible to remove salt from sand by soaking it for days in freshwater and filtering it but the better option would be just to get new gravel for your freshwater aquarium.

Remember, the key here is cleaning the tank as well as possible. There can be no excuse to not doing that. Scrub everything off continuous times with the vinegar and water and use a lot of water and brushing to get rid of all the materials. A few rescrubs might be useful. It takes time but it can even be fun (depends on the way you look to it).

As for decorations, you need to get all the decorations to soak in a diluted bleach solution for a few days to clean them. You must make sure there are absolutely no remains from the saltwater aquarium on your decorations before you can use them. Scrubbing them off later might help too. Basically - it's simple - clean it as well as possible.

Basically, you are going to need new equipment. If the filter is new in your saltwater aquarium and it is compactable with the freshwater aquarium, there is a chance you could keep it. However, in most cases, it would be better just to throw it away. Same with other mechanical parts. Mechanical devices have many small parts in them so they are extremely hard to clean. And the bacteria might kill the habitants of your freshwater aquarium, so the best thing to do is to be safe and to replace everything.

Converting a tank, you are going to need to do a lot of cleaning and soaking and re-cleaning and re-soaking and them filling and re-filling the aquarium with water many times until you can be sure. It's a tough process. And still, oftentimes you cannot be sure. So it's probably best if you invite an expert in aquariums to help you out. If not, educate yourself a lot more on the topic. If you can do it - chances are finally you will have your fancy freshwater aquarium.

Logan Heckendorn is an author that writes about freshwater aquariums since they are among his most significant interests. Logan also runs based on his freshwater aquarium hobby called The Freshwater Aquarium